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Description The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 · rating details · 1,922 ratings · 94 reviews The Room on the Roof is Ruskin Bond’s masterpiece of adolescence and coming of age. Written when the author was seventeen, it brilliantly describes the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts. A moving tale of love and friendship, it has endured as Bond’s most beloved novel. Jasmine Aug 05, 2010 Jasmine added it Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is dissatisfied with life in the declining European community at Dehra Dun… Unhappy with the strict ways of his English guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with Indian friends. Plunging for the first time into the dream-bright world of the bazaar, Hindu festivals and other aspects of Indian life, Rusty is enchanted...and is lost forever to the prim proprieties of the European community... ‘Like an Indian bazaar itself, the book is filled with the smells, sights, sounds, confusion and subtle organization of ordinary Indian life’ —Santha Rama Rau in the New York Times Book Review ‘Has a special magic of its own’ —Herald Tribune Book Review ‘Considerable charm and spontaneity…’ —San Francisco Chronicle ‘Very engaging…’ —The Guardian ‘Moving in its simplicity and underlying tenderness…a novel of marked originality.’ —The Scotsman ‘Mr Bond is a writer of great gifts…’ —The New Statesman  Ruskin Bond Author profile born in Kasauli, British Indian Ocean Territory May 19, 1934 gender male genre Children's Books, Literature & Fiction About this author edit data Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent.He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie. Related Torrents
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